Eli Stone

I admit it. I was prepared to shrug of Eli Stone as another formulaic, episode of the week type program. So you can imagine my surprise when this episode aired and I found substance, emotional involvement, and secretly cheered when good won over evil.

It is intriguing to see Eli's slow, yet steady, evolvement into a man of substance and morals. While perhaps hesitant to follow this new path, Eli ultimately does the right thing when he finds that a partner in the law firm bribed a witness not to appear in court 5 years ago for a lawsuit against a corporate car company.

Slowly we are seeing the "little guy" win against the big, heavily defended bad guy (even if representation is from his own firm).

I enjoy the hesitant twist of the visions being some sort of religious activity. The reticent prophet is a perfect foil to a disbelieving Eli.

This episode had all the makings of a great show, and I do hope the series continues with the humor, joy, views of the seedy underbellies of corporate law firms and the voice of morality winning out.

This series' orginal premise sounded good, so a lot of people gave this show a look. Like a lot of good shows through the years (that we all know and love), the pilot wasn't so hot. I jumped ship (on the same night I abandoned Lipstick Jungle, by the way). But this last episode may have changed all that.



From the opening scene in the conference room, through all of the fairly clever plot lines (custody battle between former lesbian lovers; a personal injury suit revisited by the 'new' Eli), to the let's scrap it all and go to Hawaii theme, this show was very well-written, acted and produced. I wish I could write with more authority about individual characters, but I don't know them well enough (yet). Eli (Jonny Lee Miller) seems perfect for this role, and I have loved Natasha Henstridge since the first time I saw her naked.



Many others of the regulars seemed right-on as well, but I particularly liked (actually disliked - as is meant to be) Tom Amandes as Posner. He brings the perfect smarmy, know-it-all sarcasm (that every lawyer series needs) to the conference table. I will watch the next episode - a ringing endorsement in these days prior to the return of the post-strike, 'regular' season.

This is really a great show. I think it's one of the best new shows out there right now. This episode shed more light on the characters. First - Eli. We got to see parts of the old Eli. Though personally, I thought he was great in the courtroom and didn't really see his examination of the injured guy as "evil Eli." I thought he did an excellent job getting the whole truth to the jury. It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if the case didn't settle and the jury delivered a verdict. The former relationship bwtween Posner and Eli's secretary was a shocker. I thought he was going in to fire her! Maggie is still pretty one-dimensional and I'm not sure what we were supposed to infer by her reason for working at the "evil firm." Free muffins on Wednesday?? However, I like her quirky personality so I'm hoping we will learn more about her in coming episodes. Finally, Matt (didn't even know his name before this) was featured during this episode. I thought the lesbian/egg donor/custody story was interesting. Matt and Taylor made a great team but I have no interest in them developing a romantic relationship, which I'm afraid may be where the writers are going with them. Let's hope not!

I am liking this show more and more as it goes on. I have heard a lot of comparison's to Ally McBeal, now I never really watched that show, but I really like this show.



This was an interesting case for Stone, it revealed a lot about the firm, and old Eli. So Eli was a smart, heartless lawyer before, and now he has a soul.



The visions were cool, when he met the new lawyer in the bathroom after being on the beach, and seeing surfers running in the lobby.



The scenes with him and Maggie were great, she is a hilarious character, and their scenes on the beach and runway were classic.



So it seems that Eli's secretary played by Loretta Divine, whose musical scene was great, had a thing going on with Posner. I never would have seen that one coming.



It was interesting seeing Taylor at the firm, she and Matt got rather close, and we learned more about him and his past, and we can see he is not such a bad guy. Not sure if she and Eli are going to get together again or exactly what they are doing.



So the biggest part came in the last few minutes, Eli has been ordered to be reviewed to be disbarred, we knew this had to be coming though, so next week should be a good episode.